CROWELL'S HANDBOOK OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY

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Page 334In Sophocles' tragedy Oedipus the King, Jocasta commits suicide on learning that
she has married her son. In Euripides' Phoenician Women, she is still alive
during the war of the Seven against Thebes and kills herself over the bodies of
her ...

Page 117OEDIPUS prime, and leans on a cane in old age." The monster, chagrined that
someone had at last penetrated her secret, flung herself to her death from the
walls of the citadel. Oedipus was greeted as a hero and made king of Thebes.
Shortly ...

Page 170Sophocles claims that Polyneices had meanwhile sought out his father, Oedipus,
who had taken refuge at Colonus, near Athens. Polyneices tried to win the blind
old man's support for his campaign, for an oracle had said that the side favored ...